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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Have you caught the pirates?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not yet. You bet! but we’re in for some fun. You’re lucky beggars, I can tell you. They’re only expecting one mid. Where the dickens d’you other two come from?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What do they call you at home?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Dicky, sir," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Don’t they ever call you ’dear little Dicky’? the Sub said coaxingly. He was enjoying himself immensely, and I could almost feel Jim grind his teeth...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Was it a white jar with the top covered with brown paper?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, it was," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I emptied it, he groaned;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Come in!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hello, Dick! Got here at last? and the Captain looked up, and held out his great red hand." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How’s the Missus and the girls? Where’s that box of things she tells me she gave you?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Outside, sir,"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Like his darned cheek! the Captain roared, purple in the face." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I’ll shoot him the first time I catch him! He knows that, and keeps clear when I’m about. What’s become of his wife and kids?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Wh...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You’ll shake down all right; glad to have you in my ship;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Vigilant" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "of it, and kept on forgetting to push up the" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He’s had rather a bad day’s shooting, sir, and is in a bad temper." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Strangely enough too, sir, he said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": ". The Skipper’s language was never too refined, but the little man wasn’t to be browbeaten." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Guess the _Sally Hobbs_ was flying your own red ensign, Captain," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Darn my rags! Why didn’t you say s...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why not?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He’d probably be dismissed, sir, or lose his head," }, { "from": "human", "value": "And a good thing too. Umph! the Captain muttered." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Tell the old chap that I’m sending a g...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "with which I don’t always agree. Hobbs and his daughter seemed to have taken up their quarters permanently at the Mission House, and one day, before we eventually sailed, came off to tea with me—they’d asked themselves, and I could not well refuse—and brought with them a German ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": ", he growled," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": ", as he always called himself," }, { "from": "human", "value": ". I softened the Skipper’s fierceness as much as I could, for Hoffman was evidently hard" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": ", and to Willum," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": ", so knew, before I saw him, that the news was good, and found him rubbing his hands together and grunting with pleasure." }, { "from": "human", "value": "We’ve got to go for ’em, Truscott, got to go for ’em...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If you want a good day’s rabbiting, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You fellows, go in and turn out the game, umph! and Old Lest’ll bag it when it comes down to him;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Seven Bell Tea Time—Sally Hobbs is Entertained—Mr. Rashleigh—The Pirates Raid a Monastery—A Fire on Shore—" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A Company Lands—" }, { "from": "human", "value": "A" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "all right in the gunro...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Rule, _Britannia_ and" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We won’t go home till morning" }, { "from": "human", "value": "tea time when we heard the news, and when we’d let off steam Mr. Langham banged on the table for silence." }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He trod on my thumb, and held it up to show the blood," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and Pongo gasped, horribly out of breath," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I couldn’t climb into the top, I couldn’t really; I nearly fell, and we all yelled with deligh...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The great thing in life, Mr. Pongo, he said, stuffing a huge piece of bread and jam into his mouth," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and when he could speak again," }, { "from": "human", "value": "You, Mr. Dear Little Dicky, may suck your bleeding thumb if ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "just then, so Pongo and Dicky escaped any more" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Umph! he growled." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What’s the meaning of this? and he held out the hateful telegram; but we hadn’t the pluck to say anything—words wouldn’t come." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Infernal cheek, that’s what it was, and must h...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": ", as she wanted to come down and see the gunroom. She came, too, in a few minutes, and those of us who could not escape were introduced to her, and then she sat down at our old" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": ", that when she went away we all sang" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "For she’s a jolly good fellow , and did the hip! hip! hooray! part jolly well—because we meant it. She got quite white, I don’t know why, some tears actually ran all down her face, she put her hand ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Skipper hasn’t turned out yet, the Commander told him, as he took him down below." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You’d better be careful. He’s a bit ’livery’ in the morning. He hadn’t been below three minutes before he bounced up on deck again, looking" }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A small-arm company—that was my company, the left half of it at any rate—was" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "to fall in. I had to get my gaiters on, and a revolver and a cutlass, and then superintend the serving out of ammunition. Mr. Travers, a tall, very aristocrati...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Here, mother! he said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If that little fool had only stayed where he was, he’d have caught ’em," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My aunt! you chaps, it’s the richest monastery in North China, and you can see it from the top of Joss House Hill—it’s not twenty miles away." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I’ve made my plans, and I’m not going to fly this way and that way, every other second, for al...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That’s Hobbs’s yacht and the tramp steamer, I’ll bet you anything," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What’s become of that great German chap Hoffman, eh?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "He streaked across to squint at that collection of old monks right away...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It’s getting pretty bad, sir. It seems to be working its way uphill towards the Mission House, and there seems to be a good deal of rioting going on, sir." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Umph! the Captain growled, sticking his cigar into the corner of his mouth, so th...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A company, formed up directly we landed, about fifty yards from the edge of the water, and we had to keep back an excited crowd which began to gather, while" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "B" }, { "from": "human", "value": "A company, and never stirred a m...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come on, sir!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "She’s lost, mein Gott! She’s lost! Too late! and he dashed into the burning house, and I heard him roaring," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Sally!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That German man has just gone in, sir." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He’s dead by now," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "B" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He’s never where he’s wanted, he said, and took most of" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Where can Mr. Travers have gone? I kept on wondering, but hadn’t much time for thinking, as I only had been left a very few men to gu...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What’s to be done now, the Commander asked, when he had heard the missionary’s story. Mr. Ching turned a haggard face towards the town, where the fire had nearly burnt itself out, and the greatest noise was the noise of the mob, and I saw him shake his head in a terribly sad way...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I’ll do ’em yet" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A company, I waited for daylight, guarding what was left of the Mission House with" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "B" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have no news, sir. Not a trace of her to be found;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": ", and he and I went down alone. Trevelyan was quite right, the muddy shore was covered with footmarks in one place, and there were also three long furrows in the mud, evidently made b...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "One of those fellows has been shot at very close quarters, for his clothes are singed and blackened, and the other has had his head battered in. Look, sir! they must have been dragged along there," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "to search for fresh traces." }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Give it to me," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, sir; I cannot. I found it, and if it turns out as you say, I’m going to give it back to her." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This is the work of those villainous pirates —he was hardly able to speak for rage." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Set fire to the town—right under my nose—made a fool of Old Lest, and cleared out again without a scratch. And that little lass too! What’s become of he...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ah, mon! and he wrung his hands," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Poor chap! Poor chap!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "A vairy faithful mon, an’ vairy leetil expense," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Go it, youngster! Rawlings had already received a nasty cut over the forehead, and would have been" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "in another minute, if I hadn’t stepped forward and knocked the fellow down. I don’t mind telling you that I put more" }, { "from"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Unless they want to make money over ’em, they’re as good as done for, the Skipper said, as we went on board." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Poor little lass, not more’n a couple of years older than my lass Nan!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Old Lest" ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Silly fool! roared the Skipper to me," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Miss Hobbs was the last to play it, sir, and the Mids and all of us have sworn that no one shall play it again till she does, and till she cuts those ribbons with the senior mid’s dirk." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Who suggested that?" }, { "from": "human",...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If that chap comes along here giving Old Lest advice, Old Lest will—— Umph!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Guess my boys thought the old _Omaha_ was a fixture in the ’chow-chow’ water at Shanghai, and our mud-hook could never be hauled out again. Say, Captain, we are...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Umph! A pretty how d’ye do! Those lumbering junks of yours simply skulk out of sight round a corner, he roared; and when this had been interpreted to the Taotai—I wondered how much the interpreter understood and passed on correctly—the frightened old man gesticulated feebly, and...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Willum, where the dickens is Willum? Willum, you scoundrel! bring the Commander one of my eighteen-penny Havanas," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hit on a scheme, Truscott; I’ll wipe the old Taotai’s eye; I’m going to put our own people aboard those junks, and see if ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If he won’t lend ’em to Old Lest, Old Lest’ll borrow ’em;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Made a fool of Old Lest again, have they? Umph! I’ll—I’ll— he stuttered and bellowed when I reported" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "to him," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I’ll do ’em yet. I’ll buy half a dozen of their big merchant junks and man ’em mys...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You English, sir, —and the muscles of his face were working strangely—" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sally —" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Here’s Luck to the ’Sally’" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dear Little Dicky" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, you young gentlemen, you’ve got a job to do at last—no skrim-shanking about it either—jolly hard job—and I want those of you who can sail ’em best to take charge of ’em. You’ve got to get hold of some of those pirate fellows for me—don’t care how you get ’em, but get some o...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, what is it? in his gruff voice, Dicky looked as if he would have bolted away—I expect he would have done so if I hadn’t been there and the sentry as well—but he just squeezed his lips together, wriggled in at the side of the curtain, and squeaked out," }, { "from": ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You just give it to me, sir, he said;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Thank you very much, was all we could think of saying; and when we all climbed up aboard the _Vigilant_ again, the ship’s cocoa was just being served out, and Scroggs brought us a bowl of it and sai...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ferret ’em out for me, Trevelyan," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good luck, Dick! pull your pound for the good old West Country, and that made me gloriously happy, because he had never called me" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Dick" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "—he called his a" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": ", and we called ours a" }, { "from": "human", "value": "—and yelled across to us to look. He had a huge cake in both hands." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You’ve got one too, I expect, he shouted...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": ", and Dicky and I each sang a song. I sang" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We’ll rant and we’ll roar , and Dicky sang" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Clementine" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Keep your guns covered up with old tarpaulins, don’...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Foretop and" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Maintop . He winked cheerily at us:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "You’ll find ’em useful, you fellows. If any of your chaps gets a pain below the belt, shove in a big whack of the ’Maintop’ bottle; if he gets ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ringdoves cheering us, and all of us cheering each other. She steamed off to the north’ard to get to leeward of the islands, we went away towards the sun, and the _Ferret_ the opposite way, Jim waving from the poop and sending a last" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Lu...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "if we gave him the slightest opening, and—well—neither Dicky nor I were the least enthusiastic about them after the second day, and I’m quite certain that Sharpe felt just the same—he had to live with him, too—because I heard him say," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "N...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Too plenty quick—plenty too quick—pilons thinkee you no got —and he pointed down to the hold, and I suppose meant" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "—" }, { "from": "human", "value": "We lowered our mizzen altogether—it wasn’t doing much good anyhow—and slack...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Plenty good fellow can do." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Plenty bad joss can do—if too plenty quick go—him Chinaman," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The breeze is steady, sir, and the island’s on our port bow, and I think, sir, that something is following us and just smelling ’around’." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "She’s there, sure enough, sir; I’ve seen her, off and on, for the last half-hour, and she’s working up to wind’ard, as if she wanted to have a look at us." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "She don’t quite know what we are, sir, Scroggs chuckled." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She’ll know a bit later." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ringdove" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Sally" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well Done, Sir!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What shall we do? I whispered to Scroggs." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Go down and have a look at her...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How about giving her the mainsail? I asked Scroggs." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She’s gaining very fast." }, { "from": "human", "value": "She’s doing all right, sir! We doesn’t want to run away. Just you edge up a bit more in the wind and wait for her....
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That’s all right, sir, never mind about the island; you’ll be getting her out in the open, and she’ll think you’re just trying to give her a wide berth." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How about letting the hands have food, sir? Maybe, if we’ve luck, we’re like to be busy later on, sir!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Pilons! Pilons!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He’ll kill himself with that pipe, sir, and we’ll want him later on, Scroggs said, but I didn’t know what to do." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You leave ’im to me, sir," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "She’s got guns—I can see them sticking out! Dicky squealed; but that didn’t make it certain that she was a pirate, because all merchant junks carry guns too." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Couldn’t we go for her now, Scroggs, don’t you think? She isn’t half a mile of...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Give ’em one, sir! Give ’em one! he was beaming all over his face;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Gun won’t bear, sir," }, { "from": "human", "value": "What shall I do now?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Put your helm down and come into the wind yourself, sir." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Now you’ve got her, Scroggs said, and as he spoke the junk shot off her starboard guns, and we could hear them yelling and beating tom-toms. There was too much to do this time to"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Take your time, I shouted, and was so excited that I bit a great piece out of my lip. We fired again, and must have hit her, for a cloud of smoke came out of her bows, and a very different kind of yell came back, and we yelled too; but she’d loaded again by this time, luffed up,...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "and began firing." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Tut tut—tut tut," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "They’ve had enough, sir!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I thought he’d be sorry for it, sir, said Scroggs coming up." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Look up there, sir; that does one real good." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I did that, sir, the signalman said bashfully." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Stole it aboard the _Vig._, sir," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Vely good—vely good—plenty good," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Don’t want dead ’uns; dead ’uns don’t tell things" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You’d have been atop of her in another second, sir." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That’s what I wanted, I said angrily." }, { "from": "human", "value": "What d’you mean by touching the helm?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Begging your pardon,...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Heaps of time, sir, Sharpe said, looking at me in a funny way." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They daren’t go near their guns to reload ’em. I thought you’d been killed, sir!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "What happened? I asked him, trying to shake the...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Off out of it, sir; we can’t tackle that lot. We’re only nine all told, not counting orficers, sir. Back again, sir; beat up to wind’ard, sir; and get away into the open sea." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hard a-port!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It will take us an hour to repair, sir! What can we do?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "after being" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": ", when I saw her begin to luff up. I yelled to them to" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": ", and before you could say" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well done, sir! Sharpe shouted from aloft, and that seemed to wake me again, and Dicky and his Maxim gun’s crew were yelling with delight, and then everybody cheered because the second junk wouldn’t face us, but luffed up and popped off her guns. She was too unsteady, or too muc...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Wait a little, sir! Wait a little! Sharpe said. We were both peering under the sail, and Dicky had gone for’ard to see if he could get the six-pounder to fire." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "When she’s a leetil bit closer, turn away from her, sir." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, sir! he cried, and I sang out," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Starboard!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Haul in the sheet, sir! Quick, sir! or she’ll be on to us and carry away the sails, and everyone jumped to the sheets and began hauling in the h...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "HE HACKED AND HACKED" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I can’t do it; God help us, sir!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We’re away, sir!" } ]